Buitenzorg Residency

The region of the future Buitenzorg Residency was a part of the Sunda Kingdom from the fifth century onwards, with its capital at Pakuan Pajajaran (located roughly around present-day Bogor).

[2][4] After the departure of the British from Java, the Dutch reorganized the island into a new set of subdivisions called Residencies.

The second Resident, who took office in 1818, was Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp, future Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

After that, the Resident was Leendert Gerardus Cornelis Adrianus van der Hoek who held the office until October 1931.

The larger Buitenzorg Residency borders remained in place for the final years of Dutch rule in Java; its borders were retained during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies but it was renamed to the Indonesian name Bogor; in the early years of Indonesian independence it briefly existed as well, but it was eventually abolished and its territory incorporated into the new West Java province.